A firewire question

[Onkel Dunkel]

Originally Posted by The girl next door

and if i've said it a 1000 times i'll say it again,make sure it has Texas instrument chips on it.as these work with all audio devices .With other chip sets there is no guarantee.
I had a Firewire 410 from M-audio and it only ran stable with a Texas chip PCMCIA card...

How will i know which ones that has Texas Instrument chips? They don?t excactly write this on the box

[AlexHall74]

Onkel Dunkel wrote:
Well i was planing to be able to take it with me for some field recording...

Hey Onkel Dunkel, just out of curiosity what do you mean by field recording? I agree that the more mobile a device can be, the better. It seems if you buy that PCM card above (as long as it has Texas Instruments chips) that the UltraLite can be bus powered and your objective accomplished.

My friend Bob goes into fields with condensor microphones and tries to capture the sound of natural phenomena. He captures butterflies and puts them in a box and tries to record the airflow coming off their wings (I am not kidding) and then he wants to laod it into a sampler. He's a trip!

[Merlot]

Originally Posted by Onkel Dunkel

Concerning the Audio interface i was thinking of getting a MOTU Ultralite. Any thoughts?

OD,
That is what I am using for my interface. i absolutely love it. I moved up from a firewire410 and could immedieately hear the difference in the converters. Not class A stuff, but it sounds fantastic. Gold plated jacks and all. Very little rugged piece of kit and it sounds fantastic. Stable as can be also.

[The girl next door]

Originally Posted by Onkel Dunkel

How will i know which ones that has Texas Instrument chips? They don?t excactly write this on the box

I took my laptop with me to the shop and tried different ones in the shop.you look in control panel/system/hardware/device manager and there you can see if its got Texas chips.
If failing that you can always search for one http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=...firewire&meta=

[Tomer=Trance]

Originally Posted by Merlot

That is what I am using for my interface. i absolutely love it. .

I am considering going firewire with the motu ultralite ,
Are you runing it on pc or mac?


im corrently building a recording enviroment ,so minimal amount of noise is nececery:
im planing on having my accual DAW in the next room and runing all the cables (screen mainly,i got a wireless key\mouse) thru a small drilled hole.
whats the maximum length\restrection about firewire cable length?

im looking at about 2.5-3 meters between the interface and the computer.
is that too long for firewire?

[Merlot]

Originally Posted by Tomer=Trance

I am considering going firewire with the motu ultralite ,
Are you runing it on pc or mac?

I am on a mac using logic. I use a 4 ft cable and do not have any noise issue. The drivers are solid (at least on a mac, don't know about pc). I wouls think you would be safe the length you plan on using.

[Tomer=Trance]

cool,
thanx mate!

[Onkel Dunkel]

Originally Posted by AlexHall74

Hey Onkel Dunkel, just out of curiosity what do you mean by field recording? I agree that the more mobile a device can be, the better. It seems if you buy that PCM card above (as long as it has Texas Instruments chips) that the UltraLite can be bus powered and your objective accomplished.

I?d like to take it with me to different places and record all sorts of shit like car noise, birds, crowds of people talking, etc. (no butterflies though )

My friend Bob goes into fields with condensor microphones and tries to capture the sound of natural phenomena. He captures butterflies and puts them in a box and tries to record the airflow coming off their wings (I am not kidding) and then he wants to laod it into a sampler. He's a trip!

Sounds like he got himself a challenge. He must have very good mics and a very quiet place to do this. Sounds nutty


Anyway, thanks for the feedback guys. I?ll write some dealers and ask them if they use TI chips...

[Tomer=Trance]

isnt it easyer to just use a modular and protend that the filtered noise you just created is what a butterfly realy sounds like?
exacly like the blip blip which represents computers for the past 50 years in Scifi movies. my computer make these sorts of sounds all the time,thos guys back in the 50s at the BBC soundlab were realy right after all!

[Onkel Dunkel]

Hmmmm, it seems that none cardbus firewire cards have power built in even though they have 6-pin sockets Some of them have an option for using an external powersupply (to power bus-powered gear) but then again, what?s the point. Maybe i could buy an external battery for powering the interface